Mark HodgsonNew College Durham

DON'T "MAKE DO" WITH THE OLD SNAPSHOT GENERATOR, "SPEND" TIME IMPROVING THINGS WITH THE NEW SIS

INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK

Presentation – 15minsQ&A – 10mins

TODAYS PRESENTATION

Self Hosted – Blackboard 5 -> Blackboard 9.1 SP4, Snapshot Controller

Moved to Managed Hosting – Blackboard 9.1 SP9, Integration Framework

REASON FOR CHANGE AT NCD

7 feed files: Students (approx 8300 rows) Staff (approx 780 rows) Schools (11 rows) Courses (approx 760 rows) Course to school mapping (approx 760 rows) Student to course mapping (approx 20250 rows) Staff to course mapping (approx 38200 rows)

FEED FILE SETUP

New integration features not covered: Institutional Hierarchy Terms

SIS INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK

Will be using SIS Integrations option and the Data Sources option.

DATA INTEGRATIONS

Used to group data together

DATA SOURCES

INTEGRATIONS

INTEGRATIONS

INTEGRATIONS

INTEGRATIONS

INTEGRATIONS – ADVANCED CONFIG

INTEGRATIONS – ADVANCED CONFIG

Details needed to send the feed files to the VLE is on this screen

INTEGRATIONS – HTTP INFORMATION

3 Operation types – Store, Complete Refresh and Delete

Via cURL/bin/curl -k -v -H "Content-Type:text/plain" -u <username>:<password> --data-binary @'<feedfile path>' --url <endpoint>

Via manual upload in the GUIThis can be done from the integration screen, choose file to upload, the type of data and the operation type.

SENDING FEED FILES TO VLE

Pros More knowledge of the whole process More granular control Functionality out-of-the-box

Cons Time - snapshot (5-10mins), integration (50mins)

CONCLUSIONS AND FINDINGS

Any questions?

New College Durham Contact details

Q&A

Mark Hodgsonmark.hodgson@newdur.ac.uk

George Wraithgeorge.wraith@newdur.ac.uk